For thousands of years, people have used to refer to this part of China as "Kyushu". So do you know that ancient Kyushu refers to ** respectively? How many states are left?
It is rumored that in the early years of the Xia Dynasty, Dayu divided the world into Kyushu, and cast Jiuding with the bronze tribute of Kyushu in the world, engraved the famous mountains and rivers of Kyushu, and peculiar things on Jiuding, and put them in the capital of the Xia Dynasty to show the prosperity of the world and the unification of Kyushu. Since then, Kyushu has become synonymous with ancient China.
According to the record of "Yu Gong", the Kyushu referred to by Yu is: Ji, Yan, Qing, Xu, Yang, Jing, Yu, Liang and Yong.
There is no Qingzhou and Liangzhou in Erya, but there are Youzhou and Yingzhou, and there is no Xuzhou and Liangzhou in "Zhou Li", but there are Youzhou and Bingzhou.
From the geographical point of view, ancient Kyushu basically took the Yellow River as a reference, and divided the world into nine regions, namely Kyushu, according to the east, southeast, southeast, northeast, Hedong, Hanoi and other directions.
After Shang Tang destroyed Xia Wei, the Shang Dynasty moved Jiuding to Bo (bo) Yi, and moved to Yin Hou during the Pangeng period. According to records, the Shang Dynasty formulated strict regulations on the tripods: scholars use one tripod or three tripods, doctors use five tripods, princes use seven tripods, only the Son of Heaven can use nine tripods, and the nine tripods are performed when worshipping the ancestors of heaven and earth.
After King Wu of Zhou destroyed Shang, Jiuding was publicly displayed, and after King Cheng of Zhou succeeded to the throne, Jiuding moved to Luoyi and put it in the Taimiao.
Since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou royal family has declined, and the princes from all over the world have competed for hegemony. When the king of Zhou Ding, the king of Chuzhuang came to Luoyi and asked the king of Zhou, Sun Man, about the importance of Jiuding, in order to show his ambition to seize the world, which is "winning the Central Plains". Later, King Chu Ling also wanted to win the championship for a while, but due to a rebellion in the country, he did not succeed in the end.
There are also King Qin Hui, King Chu Qingxiang, King Qi and other people all want to take Jiuding, in order to order the princes of the world, King Qin Wu in the temple to raise the dragon Wen Chiding, was smashed by this Yongzhou Ding broken tibia, and finally died of blood loss.
All in all, in the Xia, Shang and Wednesday dynasties, Jiuding is a national treasure on behalf of the state power, and whoever owns Jiuding is equivalent to owning the world.
February** Dynamic Incentive Plan Xia Hou's Loss, Yin People Accept It; Yin people lose it, and Zhou people suffer it. Xiahou, Yin, and Zhou also suffered from each other. In the second year of Qin's annihilation of Zhou, King Zhaoxiang of Qin thought that it was no longer valuable to put Jiuding in the Zhou royal family, so he moved it to Xianyang. When Yingzheng swept the six countries and dominated the world, Jiuding was nowhere to be found.
It is recorded that Jiuding sank in the area of Surabaya, and Qin Shi Huang ordered people to dive to search for it, but they did not find it. Some people also believe that the Xia Dynasty Jiuding is not nine, but one, named Kyushu Ding.
Since then, the emperors of all dynasties have attached great importance to the royal power represented by Jiuding, so later generations have cast Jiuding many times, Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty, Song Huizong of the Song Dynasty and other emperors have cast Jiuding.
Although the original Jiuding has become a legend, the word Kyushu has endured for thousands of years and has referred to this part of China for thousands of years. So, what exactly is the ancient Kyushu?
Jizhou, the first of Kyushu, is the largest state, the middle state of the world, the place where the Son of Heaven lives, and the starting point of Dayu's water control. Its scope included present-day Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, northern Hebei, Liaoning and parts of Inner Mongolia.
Later, Jizhou was divided into Youzhou and Merge Prefecture, and the geographical area was greatly reduced.
Yanzhou, roughly in today's eastern Henan, western Shandong and southern Hebei, is a military important place that must be fought for by soldiers, known as the "throat of Qilu".
Qingzhou, roughly from the Bohai Sea in the north to Mount Tai in the south, covers Hebei and Shandong Peninsula, in the eastern part of present-day Shandong. Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after more than 1,600 years, Qingzhou has always been the seat of state, government, county and so on.
Xuzhou, roughly located in the Huaihai region, includes the northern part of Jiangsu and the southern part of Shandong.
Yangzhou, roughly located in the south of Huaishui, is the most extensive coastal state in ancient Kyushu, and some lands in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan provinces were all within the scope of Yangzhou a long time ago.
Jingzhou, roughly between Jingshan and Hengshan, is now Hunan and Hubei, and is also a military powerhouse.
Liangzhou, roughly from Huashan to Heishui, included some places in present-day southern Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan and Guizhou, and later, Liangzhou became Yizhou.
Yongzhou, located in the westernmost part of Kyushu, is roughly the whole territory of Shaanxi and Ningxia, as well as some places in Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang.
Yuzhou, because it is located in the center of Kyushu, so it is also known as Zhongzhou, including most of Henan only, so Henan is referred to as "Henan".
Of course, with the change of the country's borders, there are certain differences in the division of Kyushu between dynasties. By the time of the Western Han Dynasty, Kyushu was divided into thirteen states, without Liangzhou and Yongzhou, but with Youzhou, Bingzhou, Jiaozhou, Yizhou, Liangzhou and Shuofang. During the Western Jin Dynasty, the country was divided into nineteen states.
In the Tang Dynasty, the administrative division of the country became "Dao", the Song Dynasty as "Lu", and the Ming Dynasty as "Province".
As can be seen from the change of administrative divisions, in the process of expanding the territory, the scope of ancient Kyushu was no longer enough, so it was gradually replaced by a large area and began to become a specific city.
Today, Yangzhou, Jingzhou and Xuzhou in Kyushu have become prefecture-level cities, Qingzhou and Yanzhou have become county-level cities, Jizhou has become municipal districts, and the remaining three names of Liangzhou, Yuzhou and Yongzhou have remained in history.
The evolution of Kyushu has witnessed the inheritance and development of Chinese civilization, although Kyushu has long changed, but their status in the hearts of Chinese will not fade with time.